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The discussion about the reduction as meaningless

שו”תCategory: philosophyThe discussion about the reduction as meaningless
asked 5 years ago

Hello Rabbi,
After studying the book “No Man Has Dominion Over the Spirit” – as far as I understand, your claim is that the entire discussion surrounding the literal/indirect tzimsum is meaningless, because it is impossible to draw conclusions from it, these are empty words.
On the other hand, after that you present your own concept (the question of knowledge and choice, Torah in Gebra/Haftza, etc.) and there you constantly link your proofs to how they best demonstrate the concept of tzimtzum in its literal sense in practice.
Why do you keep making this link (you probably don’t rely on it in your claims, but only as a link) if from your perspective the discussion is meaningless in the first place?


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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago
Negative. The discussion is very meaningful, and has one clear conclusion: the reduction is as simple as it is. The thesis that the reduction is not as simple as it is is meaningless talk, not the discussion.

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הפוסק האחרון replied 5 years ago

Of course, the reduction is not as simple as it is.

Anyone who claims otherwise is simply doing so in order to enable his own existence. Because if there is no reduction as simple as it is, then there is no place for it.

To say that there was a reduction as simple as it is means that something changed. And nothing can change. Only something can change. But for something to exist, a world is needed. And since it is not in the world, then it is not something. That is, it cannot change. That is, there is no reduction as simple as it is.

And it is all an illusion.

אברהם replied 5 years ago

One of the most bizarre responses I've ever encountered

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